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diner | dinerlike |

As a verb diner

is to dine.

As a noun diner

is dinner, evening meal.

As an adjective dinerlike is

resembling or characteristic of a diner.

diner

English

Noun

(wikipedia diner) (en noun)
  • One who dines, an eater.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
  • * (Calvin Trillin) (1935-)
    • When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
  • A dining car in a railroad train.
  • * Richard Gutman
    • The diner is everybody's kitchen.
  • A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.

    • Synonyms

    * (rail car) dining car * (sense) pub

    Hyponyms

    * (expert) deipnosophist

    Related terms

    * (act) See'' * (verb) See * Joe’s Diner

    dinerlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of a diner.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 11, author=Anne Barnard, title=For Circus Workers, Home Is Where the Train Is, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Kodak, a 6-year-old Labrador mix that lives with Mike Hickey, the trainmaster, in an apartment with an electric fireplace, trotted up and down the train, then headed to its dinerlike restaurant, the Pie Car, where the cooks give her bacon. }}